Harald Jers

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Harald Jers (* 1972 in Aachen ) is a German conductor, choir director and professor of choral conducting .

Life

Jers studied conducting , music for secondary level II teaching with a major in singing, church music as well as physics (diploma and teaching degree) and mathematics in Aachen , Cologne , Stockholm and Düsseldorf . In conducting, he attended master classes with Frieder Bernius , Eric Ericson , Laszlo Heltay, Peter Erdei, Eva Kollar, Wolfgang Schäfer , Max Frey and Georg Grün, among others . In addition to his lectureship as a singing and conducting teacher at several European music academies, he leads international conducting courses and workshops. In addition, he is a juror at choir and composition competitions and a speaker at specialist symposiums around the world. In 2001 he founded the chamber choir CONSONO . From 2006 to 2014 he directed the chamber choir CONSTANT, also located in Cologne.

Harald Jers is visiting lecturer at European music academies, speaker at symposia and in numerous music academies. He teaches choir conducting, singing, voice training and acoustics. He also gives conducting courses in connection with choir acoustics and voice training and is a juror at international choir and composition competitions. A special trademark is his additional qualification as a graduate physicist in combination with musicological research in musical acoustics. As a conductor, he uses the background knowledge he has acquired to improve the quality of intonation and sound, for an effective rehearsal method, to develop a work-specific interpretation and to optimize the layout of his ensembles in the rehearsal or concert situation. Numerous first prizes in international choir competitions with his choirs, CD and radio recordings, invitations to renowned music festivals and scientific awards in acoustics are proof of his professional reputation. His research work in the field of musical acoustics and room acoustics provided the scientific basis for analyzing the singing voice in the choir. As part of his research in systematic musicology on the subject of "choral acoustics", Jers received a research contract from the EU at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm . In November 2005 he received the Acoustical Society of America's first prize in musical acoustics for his research .

Together with his choir CONSONO, Jers not only achieved 1st place in the German Choir Competition in 2006 , but also won the international choir competitions in Marktoberdorf (Germany). In the following years he won in Maasmechelen (Belgium, 2007), Cork (Ireland, 2008) and in Gorizia (Italy, 2009). In 2010 he received the Grand Prix Conducting Prize at the International Choir Competition in Debrecen (Hungary). Since 2014 he has been teaching as a professor for choral conducting at the Musikhochschule Mannheim .

Publications

Audio documents

Essays

  • Die Gesangsstimme - Singers , in: Kompendien Musik, Volume 16 Musical Acoustics (published on behalf of the Society for Music Research), Laaber-Verlag 2014.
  • The impact of location on the singing voice , in Welch, G., Howard, D., Nix, J. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Singing, Oxford University Press 2013.
  • Group and Ensemble Vocal Music , in McPherson, GE, & Welch, GF (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, OUP 2012.
  • Acoustics in the choir , in: Brecht, K., Schönherr, C., Weigle, K., Chorissimo - choir book for the school, Carus-Verlag 2008.
  • Directivity measurements of adjacent singers in a choir , 19th International Congress of Acoustics, Madrid, Spain 2007.
  • The phenomena of acoustics , Musikforum 04/2006.
  • Directivity of singers , Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis 2005.
  • What are the differences between amateur and professional choir? , ASA / Noise-Con 2005, Meeting Minneapolis 2005.
  • Multitrack analysis of amateur and professional choirs , Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis 2005.
  • Intonation analysis of a multi-channel choir recording . TMH-QPSR, 47 (1), pages 001-006, 2005.
  • From amateur choir to professional choir - acoustic analysis of multi-channel recordings , Tonmeistertagung Leipzig 2004.
  • Intonation analysis of a multi-channel choir recording . In Proc of Baltic-Nordic Acoustics Meeting 2004, B-NAM 2004. Mariehamn, Åland, Finland 2004.
  • Directivity measurement of a singer . The joint meeting Forum Acusticum / ASA / DAGA in Berlin, ACUSTICA 85 Suppl. 1, S77, 1999.
  • Investigation of the realization possibilities of distributed sources for the room acoustic computer simulation using the example of the choir . Diploma thesis at the Institute for Technical Acoustics, RWTH Aachen 1998.
  • Replica of a choir for room acoustic and musical investigations , 20th Tonmeistertagung, Karlsruhe 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chamber choir CONSONO wins "Grand Prix" ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Kreis-ChorVereinigung Köln eV with a detailed choir vita  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kcvkoeln.de
  2. ↑ Caroline Barr: Successful squaring of the circle , in Morgenweb of December 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Jers, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen